Penn v. Whidden

RICHARDSON, Chief Judge.

Action was brought by appellee as administrator for an accounting of amounts collected by appellant while the latter was employed as housekeeper in the operation of a rooming house during a brief period following the decease of appellee’s mother, the intestate. The court’s finding and judgment thereon were for plaintiff, and defendant has appealed.

The intestate died November 8, 1942. The only asset of her estate was the rooming house business, including furniture later valued at $500 in a petition for administration. A week after her death her son, who lived on the…